I doubt
if the Palestinians would agree with Bush #2ís Evil Empire statement.
Their losses were attributable to what they label as monsters who headed
the Lukud Party. They label General Sharon as ďthe butcher,Ē a murderer.
As head of the Likud Party, he led a large number of his cohorts to violate
Islamís second most sacred edifice, the Dome of the Rock in order to goad
the Muslim Palestinians to retaliate with an intifada at a time when peace
was about to be arranged between Israel and Palestinian negotiators.

Sharon
had no intention that peace should succeed (Read Sharonís Fatal Mistake
by Franz Shumann 10-03-00 found in the search engine Google). He then
launched a program of constructing illegal housing settlements in Palestinian
territory. Later, just prior to his stroke that incapacitated him, he
began withdrawing certain non-strategic settlements within occupied Palestine,
but typically countered it by sealing off the Palestinian countryside
into divided areas and laced them with barb wired roads where passes are
needed to go from one village to another, thus making daily life intolerable.
He ordered a wall to separate Israel from Palestinine requiring Palestinians
to be searched and demeaned by Israeli soldiers while they wait in long
lines to work for half wages in Tel Aviv and other cities.

When
peace was being negotiated regarding the Oslo accords and Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was involved in negotiating a peace settlement, Yigal Amir,
supposedly a member of a Zionist radical group, assassinated him. There
is the suspicion that Rabinís security guards and key government officials
were involved. Rabinís widow is convinced of that. This suspicion coincides
with the Palestinians belief that this incident is one more example of
Israelís unwillingness to help settle for peace in the region.

Two
of Israelís prime ministers are among the many held in contempt by Palestinians.
Former terrorists Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, both
members of the Stern Gang that terrorized the British into abandoning
the League of Nations-appointed British protectorate involving Palestine.
They learned their trade as emigrants while in the Soviet Union. Begin
actually achieved a short lived peace accord with Egyptís Anwar Sedat
before Sadat was assassinated. He lamented his history as a Stern Gang
member before he died, but the Palestinians have long memories. Shamir
still remains the perennial Communist loving revolutionary.

Yitzchak
Shamir maintained close ties with the Soviets and favored the communist
state, believing that the United States is weak and corrupt. When Jonathan
Pollard, the American Israeli spy, handed over the U.S. targeting nuclear
strike plan against key Soviet installations and the names of the U.S.
agents located in the Soviet Union, Shamir in turn gave the information
to the Soviets. Soon after that transference, the U.S. lost all contact
with its agents. (Ref. Seymour Hersh, the Sampson Option, Page 286).

When
it comes to national sovereignty, only Israel has been afforded immunity
from accountability. In the 1967 War, Israeli aircraft and PT boats led
an unprovoked attack on the U.S. Intelligence ship the USS Liberty. The
incident was kept under wraps by orders of President Johnson who was afraid
of the political repercussions by the Zionist lobbies in the U.S.[1]
The Libertyís crew was threatened with court-martial, if they revealed
anything about the incident and that long delayed order (3 hours) it took
to launch Navy fighters from a nearby U.S. Carrier.

The
Western nations have never pressured the mini state regarding its WMD
capabilities or its intent to use them. During the 1973 Yom Kippur war,
Israel had uploaded its nukes and would have used them against Egypt and
Syria creating a nuclear holocaust had it not been for intervention and
massive shipments of arms, aircraft and material by the U.S. government.[2]

The
FBI arrested the so-called five Israeli sellers of works of art whose
visas expired.[3]
They pre-positioned telescopes on the roof of a New York skyscraper before
the 9-11 attack and were caught dancing shouting with glee after the two
aircraft crashed into the twin towers. The question remains how did these
foreign agents know when, where and how the attack was to take place?
Why werenít these ďfriendsĒ of the United States not saddened over the
murder of nearly 3,000 people, unless they had foreknowledge of a plan
to start the process of eliminating Israelís Middle East most dangerous
enemies and the possible access to an unlimited supply of oil when another
Pearl Harbor occurred?

In the
eyes of the Middle East, it is the story of America leading the way to
fight oil rich countries that are trying to insulate themselves from foreign
encroachments, retain sovereignty and hold to coveted oil reserves.

The
West is seen in the Middle East as ruthless as the Crusaders of old. The
United States, representing western and Israelís interests, manipulates
to assure democratic rights are accepted by Middle East rulers who never
had or wanted democracy in the first place, since democracy in its purist
form is unworkable, but in any form it would destroy established monarchal
authority in Saudi Arabia, other Arab oil producing countries and tribal
sheikdoms. This would allow a takeover by a gaggle of radical Muslim religious
fanatics and the establishment of a fundamentalist theocracy. The Mullahs
would clamp down on the Westís supply of oil and charge astronomical prices.
They would increase oil supplies to Russia and China as favorite nations.

A drastic
reduction of American military manpower in Iraq will begin in 2007. The
media goading the government to leave Iraq - near total retreat seems
the path that is going to take place sooner rather than later.

It costs
$30,000 to fully equip a combat soldier including non-flammable clothing,
helmet, special combat boots, body armor, night vision goggles and sophisticated
communications equipment. Add pay and allowances and retirement benefits
and health benefits for life. This amounts to about $500,000 to install
a single soldier for life (one that retires from the military).

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Because
of the cost to equip 40,000 additional soldiers to be used in a final
surge, added to the 140,000 now in Iraq, plus needed additional equipment
to replace worn out armored vehicles, more sophisticated weaponry and
replenish ammunition stocks, the Democrat congress may renege in favor
of its planned social programs.

And
so the war machine continues towards IranÖ perpetual war for perpetual
peace. Yet, a massive invasion of illegals within our country is ignored
by both congress and the White House. How unaffordable? How absurd?

1,
The Passionate Attachment, by former Ambassador to Israel George W.
Ball and his son Douglas B. Ball, see pages 57, 58 and 59.2,
The Sampson Option, Seymour Hersh, Pages 180, 236, 2nd paragraph.3,
The
five dancing Israelis arrested on 9-11

The
"Curmudgeon", Joseph H. Kress, Lt. Col. USAF (Ret) obtain a B.S. in Business
Administration, with a major in economics and minor in accounting.

He
served in England and Viet Nam where he received the Bronze Star during
the TET Offensive, then he was appointed Chief of Supply for two state-side
assignments; the DOD's Defense Disposal Agency where he was chief of disposal
operations for all of Southeast Asia, based at CINCPAC Headquarters in
Hawaii. He retired from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio as chief of supply
with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel at the age of 52, and now he and his
wife reside in Summerville, S.C.

Since
leaving the military, he was involved in political campaigns, writing
articles for the local papers, and as a realtor.